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How do you process grief?

No, you. But it's so good. No, it's yours.

poetry prompt of the week: split yourself into three characters. three major facets of yourself. how would each of these parts of yourself react to the same situation?

You get happy in the little things and the big things. And if the result isn't what you dreamed of, it doesn't kill you, if you enjoyed the doing of it.

Mary Beatrice Davidson

when all the pieces come together 😩

You’re writing about your mother’s sexuality, your own shame and curiosity, and that devastating image of bees pouring from her breast. Tell us how you’re able to be so “shamelessly” honest in these poems? 💙

Every price you pay to fix the situation is worth not going the wrong way, and starting to go the right way.

I have surely lived a life of joy with you...

I want to give you something back—

Ivan Turgenev

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There’s a theory that a poet’s work tends toward one of four major axes—poetry of the body, poetry of the mind, poetry of the heart, or poetry of the soul. Where would you place your work, if at all?

Kahlil Gibran

Ren Hang, Journal of Depression.

tag yourself or tell me your about-me-tags

We asked Lexi Pelle: What’s the best piece of writing advice you’ve ever received? Alternatively: what would you tell other poets about writing the unsayable? 💙

Although the wind blows terribly here...

the glass HAS water in it

What I Loved About My Mother-In-Law's Nudes

Lexi Pelle

what is a piece of writing that has stuck in your brain for life?

We're open for our monthly free contest, Poem of the Month until the 7th 🖋️ Send us a monostitch: a one-line poem! ⭐️

Lexi Pelle, our Poet of the Week 💙

poetry prompt of the week: Albert Camus once said, "The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label fate only what crushes it."

write about how this may/not resonate with you or envision how it may for someone else, even a character. ask the heart why & try to pick up what it says the quietest.

Look! Love was once mine.

do not borrow grief from the future

You go in. You quicken.

you rang? 🙂‍↕️